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The modern world is literally permeated with a myriad of different contradictions, which in addition to the local and regional level in the twentieth century have already appeared at the global level. The most alarming thing in this situation is that humanity, which has become an integral planetary system under the influence of multidimensional globalization and which opposes nature, has been completely unprepared for such a turn of events and demonstrates its impotence in the face of the negative consequences of globalization. Here it should be said that Globalization is a trend for centuries. We can say even more - it is a trend forever. Once started, as soon as humanity in its development really reached the global level, it will now accompany the world community as much as the world society will exist in this (planetary) quality. Thus, under the influence of globalization processes, by the beginning of the XXI century the world community was fully formed as an integral cultural and civilizational system of the planetary scale. At the same time, global humanity remains heterogeneous, divided into separate fragments and component parts. Also in the world community we find not only civilization, but also barbarism, and even savagery. It is also important to note that the social stratification and the huge gap between the poverty of the majority of the world's population and the excess wealth of the absolute minority is the most characteristic feature of this world. As a result, in the world community, a global confrontation is growing, in which national States and all sorts of international structures, defending their selfish interests, are guided mostly by their own benefit, thus creating a situation of instability and, in fact, entering into a "war of all against all." Multidimensional globalization has made the arena of people's interaction not only separate territories and regions, but also the entire space of the Earth. As a result, the growing migration flows expanded to planetary scales. As a result, one of the most pressing problems of a global scale will be in the foreseeable future a large-scale wave of displacement of significant human masses. These processes, which are out of control, will thoroughly overhaul the modern map of the world and will radically change the ethnic composition of the world's population. We are already on the verge of a new great migration of peoples and this will only remotely resemble what has already happened in history. With the growth and strengthening of global processes the clash of interests of all kinds of subjects of international relations will only intensify, exacerbating the former and creating new problems. How to change the situation? It is necessary to begin to speak about it as in such cases reasonably speak Chinese. Attempts to build international relations and establish mutual understanding on an intercultural basis, based on the ideas of multiculturalism and intercultural dialogue did not meet expectations. The main problem is that the modern global world can not be harmonized in the expectation of intercultural relations, intercultural dialogue, etc., because culture separates people, while the integrative function is performed by civilizational principles and civilizational foundations of social life. Outside the cultural and civilizational approach, the essence of many pressing problems of our time remains beyond attention. The more cultural and civilizational similarities between peoples, that is, the more background of common experience they have, the easier and faster the atmosphere of mutual understanding and cooperation is established between them. In the modern world, there are clearly four vectors of force (global trends), which have the greatest impact on the development of world processes and have real opportunities to dramatically affect the appearance of global humanity in the future. It is the West, China, the Islamic world and Russia. Each of these cultural and civilizational systems is so self-sufficient and independent that fundamental integration with any of them is possible only on the platforms and conditions of each of them. The Western countries have a relatively common ideology and a common strategic position – commitment to liberal democratic values and capitalist development. Russia, China, India, Brazil, Iran, not to mention the rest of the countries, do not have an ideology that could become a solid unifying beginning for other countries, so they do not actually have strategic allies. And their associations and all kinds of alliances are formed on a pragmatic basis, when, because and if some parties to the agreement see this as their interest. But the modern world is too complicated to trust its several persons, especially one person, as well as any one decision-making center. It is infinite in its contradictions and barely regulated. This raises the utmost importance, but still poorly understood question of the management of social systems in General and global society in particular. Against the background of the worsening international relations, it is becoming increasingly clear that it is not possible to manage the global system even in one sphere (for example, the economic one) from one center, no matter how significant it may be. Hence the idea of a world government is nothing more than an illusion that has no objective basis for its implementation, if only because of the lack of universal morality and a single system of values, as well as global law. Then what are our prospects? What can we hope for? And what should we do today? It seems to me that network management of social processes, based on the latest technologies, opens new opportunities for effective solution of issues in the field of international relations. At the same time we should not pursue economic growth, short-term well-being in conditions when the planet is already overpopulated, and the anthropogenic impact on the environment exceeds the recreational opportunities of the biosphere. This is the road to nowhere! The formation of a globally oriented worldview is the imperative of time and a necessary condition for effective interaction and, ultimately, a means of survival of the world cultural and civilizational system. At the same time, such interaction can be effective only if national peculiarities and cultural diversity of people living together or nearby are taken into сonsideration. In General, the world community today faces the need for serious and, above all, worldview, value and spiritual changes, which should be the result of a global civilizational revolution aimed at the formation of a global civil society and the transition in international relations from the "right of force" to the "force of law". In an era of multidimensional globalization, this is an absolutely necessary condition for preserving peace and realizing the most important principle of sustainable development of planetary humanity: "to think globally, to act – together!".